| Red List status: | Vulnerable |
| NERC Act S41: | Species of Principal Importance |
| Local status: | Uncommon and local, living in small colonies that are vulnerable to extinction. |
| Size: | Small. |
| Larval foodplant: | Creeping cinquefoil is the usual foodplant. May use Agrimony and Wild Strawberry. The later larval stages may also use Bramble. |
| No. of broods: | Usually one. A partial second brood may occur in late July/early August. |
| Flight time(s): | Late April to Mid June
Average first date: 26th April
Average last date: 20th June |
| Winter: | Pupa at the base of the foodplant. |
| Habits: | Basks on or near bare ground to warm up.
Flies only in sunshine, when it appears as a low-level blur.
Males will perch, defending a territory.
Roosts on seed heads making surveying during poor weather a possibility.
May roost communally. |
| Habitats: | A combination of bare ground, short turf, taller vegetation and nearby scrub.
Found at brownfield sites,
unimproved grasslands with scrub,
track and lane verges. |
